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If you are lucky enough to date an outdoorsy girl, there are a few things that you should know.

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The men follow with their knives and guns. It’s dark and windy. Thunder crashes and lightning sporadically brightens the surroundings.

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He pulled the gun from the safe, loaded it with ammunition, and handed it to me. I promised him I wouldn’t say anything to anyone.

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The first day it hits 40 degrees after a long, cold winter and you drive around with the windows down.

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I am an open book of the messes I have made and completely, utterly selfish about you.

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Sweet and spicy, hot and feisty, that’s what Southern Girls are made of!

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This isn’t normal.

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Not since Simba, of The Lion King, has a lion captured the world’s imagination in this way.

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Does anyone else get a little uncomfortable when the entire Internet all of the sudden decides to simultaneously agree on a singular issue? Usually I go online expecting to see a steady stream of bickering and debate, like my Aunt Joan arguing about gun control with one of my college roommates in the comments of a status update I wrote about going to see Ant-Man last weekend.

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It started gradually. Simply, actually. A lot of sneezing. We both assumed it was allergies, and so did the doctor.